GrottoPod

What hasn’t Caroline Paul done? A one-time collegiate rower and Olympic-caliber luger, Paul has published non-fiction and historic fiction, books about stalking her cat, a memoir about being one of th...

15 Maj 20181h 6min

Dashka Slater already had a novel, several children’s books and a long career as a journalist in her pocket when, inspired by an incident in her hometown of Oakland, she decided to invent something ne...

8 Maj 201858min

Author Kirstin Chen graduated college with thoughts of getting a “practical” job. Two acclaimed novels later, Chen takes time out from a hectic book tour to join the GrottoPod and talk about how her n...

1 Maj 20181h

This week, New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Evison joins us for our last live show from Boise’s Storyfort literary festival. Evison, who’s the executive editor of The Nervous Breakdown, ros...

24 Apr 20181h 9min

A Boise hotel suite is the GrottoPod’s roving studio this week as our Storyfort Festival episodes continue. We talk with five-time novelist -- and Richmond Fontaine and The Delines frontman -- Willy V...

17 Apr 20181h 21min

When one-time model and actress August McLaughlin set out to become a writer, she never imagined she’d become a brand. Inspired after overcoming struggles with body image and an eating disorder, McLau...

10 Apr 20181h 3min

For the first of four episodes recorded at the Storyfort Festival in Idaho, the GrottoPod breaks format and sits in a Boise nightspot with Stewart O’Nan, whose 16 novels include Snow Angels, West of S...

3 Apr 20181h 10min

Natalie Baszile’s ascent from working in her family’s business to publishing her first novel is the classic story of a 20-year “overnight” success, one that ends with a TV deal and a playdate with Opr...

27 Mars 201859min